In Australia, many people learn quickly that speaking openly about mental health carries a reputational cost. The signal is subtle but persistent: disclose too much and you risk being quietly reclassified as unreliable, fragile, or difficult. The result is a perverse ethical loop in which silence is rewarded and honesty is penalised, even though that […]
The contemporary ethics of artificial intelligence is dominated by institutional reports, advisory panels, and compliance frameworks that focus on bias mitigation, transparency checklists, and downstream harm reduction. These efforts are not meaningless, but they are constrained by the same political, legal, and economic structures that fund them and define their remit. As a result, the […]
I have spent a long time studying the language of communication: signalling, framing, coupling, recursion, delay. The way meaning moves, mutates, collapses, and reconstitutes itself inside complex systems. That work remains endlessly compelling. What was deeply disappointing was my brief entanglement with the university. Not simply because of what I myself was going through at […]
The Dalai Lama’s audiobook, recently recognised with a Grammy, is not framed as a political intervention. It is a work of reflection, oriented toward compassion, ethical responsibility, and the cultivation of inner steadiness. Yet the figure of the Dalai Lama does not circulate in a neutral field. His public presence remains entangled with a long […]
The world is an analog continuum. It does not arrive segmented, categorised, or discretised. What comes in pieces is the machinery we use to act within it: language, logic, metrics, models, and the formal decision structures that allow complex systems to function at scale. These are not errors; they are instruments. They make coordination possible, […]
Love over gold: the principle that human connection and community should take precedence over wealth, profit, or material advantage.
Living systems, space, and coherence Living systems do not operate in a single space in the sense of a bounded domain, nor do they truly inhabit many distinct ones; rather, they instance a continuous relational field whose articulation into behavioural, transcriptional, morphological, physiological, and symbolic sub-spaces constitutes its harmonic structure, not a reduction of it. […]
An apparent and recurring tendency in how cancer is framed is to treat it as a failure of biological order rather than as a reorganisation within it. The work of the physicist Paul Davies helps correct this by treating living systems as information-processing organisations with multiple stable regimes. Cancer, on this view, is not noise, […]
AI companionship is a downstream expression of a much older dependency: the tendency to mistake symbolic coherence for certainty, and patterned response for agency. Language evolved pari passu, along with neurochemistry, but the structure it expresses is not confined to language, technology, or even cognition. It reflects a deeper dynamic by which systems persist through […]
There is a grim existential irony in how those most convinced of possessing an absolute moral truth, acting within a field shaped by fear, reflex, and desire, come to cultivate greed, cruelty, and exclusion in the name of that certainty, mistaking the felt coherence of dominance for righteousness, and remaining largely unaware that what they […]
Heatwaves injure by differential, not by degree, through the lag between what a system is tuned to sustain and what it is suddenly made to carry. After a couple of days over 40 °C the city is quiet this morning, and not only because it is Sunday. Everything is settling back toward itself. Movement slows […]
Many of the critically defining problems of our time resist piecemeal treatment. Understanding consciousness, curing cancer, alleviating poverty, managing environmental sustainability, mitigating climate change without triggering new failures, securing digital infrastructure, managing geopolitical instability, slowing social decay, and containing the adverse effects of runaway technological growth are not separate challenges but tightly coupled dynamical processes. […]
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